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The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
5 lis 2024 · Napoleon’s pact with Russia at Tilsit (July 7, 1807) left him free to turn his attention toward Britain and toward Sweden and Portugal, the two powers that remained allied or friendly to Britain.
Seen in this light, the invasion of Russia was one part of a Europe- wide policy that would allow him to exercise commercial control when, after Trafalgar, he lacked the naval power with which to enforce it at sea.
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (French: Campagne de Russie), the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Russian: Оте́чественная война́ 1812 го́да, romanized: Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian ...
At the outbreak of World War II, Portugal was ruled by António de Oliveira Salazar, who in 1933 had founded the Estado Novo ("New State"), the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974. He had favoured the Spanish nationalist cause, fearing a communist invasion of Portugal, yet he was uneasy at the prospect of a Spanish government bolstered by strong ties with the ...
14 maj 2018 · Less than a year after the peace of Tilsit, the armies of Napoleon were sent to invade Portugal, and the house of Bragança was reduced to seeking a refuge in its American dominions.
napoleon’s Invasion of russia, 1812 43 threatened to undermine the Continental System.6 With economic conflict worsening and Alexander’s hostility deepening, Napoleon decided that Franco-Russian differ-ences had to be settled by force. For Napoleon, war was a first reflex, not a last resort.
